MP4 files starting to get way too big from dvd iso conversions...

For some reason using both the latest release and also the beta versions, the output files are getting way too big.

The usual output size was between 500mb to 1.5gb per disc, however now every disc has the output size over 11gb using the same settings. Ive tried resetting the settings to basic and its still doing this.

Heres the log after trying to convert an iso to mp4 after a fresh install using the default normal preset. After a couple mins I stopped it after the file reached 1gb at only 10mins of video converted. It started doing this after I tried to add a ton of
files in a queue to be converted. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling but it doesnt help

VidCoder 1.5.2.0 (x64)

Starting queue

VidCoder 1.5.2.0 (x64)

Starting job 1/11

Path: M:\DVDS\xxxxxxxxx.ISO

Title: 22

Range: All

Worker ready: Service state is Opened on pipe VidCoderWorker.bfc9a43e-24f4-4cd7-b29e-d0ad4e2d840d

I think the constant quality slider is bugged for me? If I choose avg bitrate/target options they work ok for me and output the correct bitrate and size. For some reason no matter what I pick on the slider with constant, its setting the bitrate really
high to 9800kbps

Yes both the x64 beta and the 1.4.22 releases did this. It started happening after I had a long queue of isos to convert. One of them had an error and every video I try to convert afterwards has the size issue

Same :( Converting a BD thats 21GB makes an mkv thats 21GB. The difference between the two is that the BD has two audio tracks, when converting I only select one. Not sure how Vidcoder handles DTS-MA but it was fine in Version 1.4.17-Beta portable. Normally
I was getting conversions at half or less than what the BD folder was. Renaming the SQLite file didnt do much.

I would love to send you both from version 1.4.22 and version 1.4.17 portable but it is limiting me in the amount of characters. Each log exceeds the 10000 character limit :) At any rate using 1.4.22 file size was 21.6GB, with 1.4.17 it was 15.6GB using same
settings for both. Both were set to constant quality 19, audio is passthrough DTS-MA in both cases. So I guess for now I will continue to use 1.4.17.....

Another thing I noticed is with the subtitles, I select "Foreign Audio Search", "Forced only". When I did this in the past it would always show the forced subtitles and for some reason it doesn't now I have to select "Burn In"
for it to show the Forced Only subs. Obviously not a huge deal but just throwing it out there to see which is the correct method of showing "Forced Only" subs. Thanks

As for the subtitles, Forced Only means that it will choose a narrower set of subtitles: it will only pick the ones that are "forced". Burn in means that it will write those subtitles onto the picture. If you have subtitles on a video that are not
burned in, you might have to go pick them in the video player for them to show up. If this is different from what you're seeing, again logs would help here.

Hmm well in 1.4.22 you've picked two copies of the DTS-HD MA track, while in 1.4.17 you were picking two copies of the regular DTS track, which is much smaller. I would suggest removing one of the audio encodings and picking the DTS track instead (or compressing
the audio).

Not sure what is up there but I selected only the dts-ma track. In the settings for the profile, I have it set to do auto pass on audio tracks 1 and 2. Reason for that is that I would pick DTS(or DTS-MA) and Dolby Digital(or True-HD) depending on the movie.
If the movie only had DTS or DTS-MA I would pick DTS-MA. In both I selected the DTS-MA track and only that one. I noticed that it said I selected both. I wonder if its broke in 1.4.17? Meaning even though I select DTS-MA it defaults to DTS, I don't know..
I am running a few more conversions and I know I selected the DTS-MA track so we'll see what happens and then I'll do that one again to verify your feedback.

So even though only one track is selected in the main window it still wants to do two? So heres something else that is interesting, as you can see in the image I have dts-ma selected and it still only came across as DTS, with two tracks that are both DTS.
I checked with my BD Player and it says DTS, not DTS-MA. I will have at it again with the new version. I am going to remove everything that has to do vidcoder and try again. Also the latest conversions are with 1.4.17, so there must have been something wrong
with that one.

As for the Player I have tried, VLC, my RaspberryPi with openelec and my Oppo Bdp-95... all just say DTS other streams might say DTS-MA or DTS 6.1... But let me check what my Receiver says its getting. I'll be back.

Ok, so all maybe ok... On the file that I gave you the xml's for my Receiver does pick up DTS-MA but it does have 2 tracks even thought I only selected one. Do you think that's because of the profile I created? I recently uninstalled and made sure all
of the Vidcoder files were gone. Reinstalled 1.4.22x64 and running a convert, but as you saw it takes about 3 hours per... If its doubling up the audio that could explain why the files are so big.. I'll check that file with mkvmergegui and see if I can remove
one of the audio tracks.

I was a bit confused about that, what I was trying to accomplish was to auto select the two streams which is what I thought it was doing because on the main screen it was selecting the different tracks. But I guess being lazy doesn't always pay off ;)
. I did check the file that I had with mkvmerge and it was doing two tracks even though on the main screen it only had the one track selected. So easily enough I will be able to remove that and see if the size goes down(which it should)